Eating meat is dehydrating?

[The Long Bark]

Okay, so after the desolation point update, I've noticed that eating meat makes you thirsty?

Is this an intended feature? Sure is counterintuitive to me.

[ChillPlayer]

This was the case already before, not a huge amount but after sleeping 12 hours the order of eating first, drinking later or the other way around determins if you wake up with 100% or 94% condition

[The Long Bark]

It's rather dramatic now though.

It's not intuitive. When was the last time that eating a steak made you so badly dehydrated?

Beef jerky is salted so I guess that could dehydrate you? But just some meat you hastily cooked over a flame? Come on.

Game-wise I can see it making sense as a way of actually making the player spend more of his spare wood. But on the other hand, watching the stove boil is boring.

[nicko]

I don't think eating adds much thirst factor, just sleeping makes you thirsty.